Expert Information
Currently engaged in clinical practice: Yes
Degree: D.D.S.
Specialty / Subspecialty:
- Dentist - Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Area of Expertise: Implants, Facial Trauma, Oral Surgery, Wisdom Teeth, Facial Pain-TMJ
Year of Medical Training Completion: 1985
City of Practice: Retired but teaching now at Jamaica Hospital
State of Practice: New York
Previous Experience As Expert Witness: Yes
Type of Practice: Academic
- Deposition(s) Given For the Defendant: 10
- Deposition(s) Given For the Plaintiff: 10
- Testified in a Trial For the Defendent: 2
- Testified in a Trial For the Plaintiff: 2
Available to Review Cases: Yes, for either the defendant or the plaintiff
Available to Be Deposed: Yes, for either the defendant or the plaintiff
Available to Testify In Trial: Yes, for either the defendant or the plaintiff
Training and Additional Credentials
Medical School: -
Year of Completion: -
Residency: -
Year of Completion: -
Fellowship: -
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Academic / Leadership Information
Highest Academic/Leadership Position Achieved: -
Current Academic Affiliation: -
Distinguishing Achievements
Awards: -
Number of Publications on PubMed: -
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Fee Schedule
Medical Record Review:
Review of Medical Records, Review of Additional Materials, additional office consultation
- $350
- $500
Independent Medical Examination:
Independent Medical Examination with written report
- Per Hour: $800
Deposition in office:
Deposition: Discovery/Evidence
- First two hours: $1000
- For each Additional hour or any portion thereof: $350
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled disposition): $500
- Cancellation fee (less than 7 days notice): $250
Trial (InState):
- Initial day: $4000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2000
- For each additional day: $2500
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $1000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $2000
Trial (Out of State):
- Initial day: $6000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $3000
- For each additional day: $4000
- Cancellation fee (less than 72 hours notice): $2000
- Retainer (due 14 days prior to scheduled trial): $3000
Case Responses
Strep intermedius abscess and osteomyelitis after crown lengthening (Case #340)
- Medical Probability: 2 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: The time from the crown lengthening to the infection was 6 weeks. The patient has periodontal disease( I don't know how extensive) but the worse it is then he is always walking around with chronic in...
- Causation Probability: 2 / 10
- Causation Summary: 6 week time delay for infection onset
- Expert Summary: 38 years of dentoalveolar experience About 50 case reviews of legal dental cases some of which were infections
- Similar Summary: Never. The closest would be subacute endocarditis (SBE) and prosthetic joint infections
- Medical Probability: 10 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: 1) Once the primary medical doctor saw an unexplained asymmetry and ultrasound saw a mass, patient should have been referred immediately to a head and neck, ENT or oral surgeon. The primary physician ...
- Causation Probability: 10 / 10
- Causation Summary: The long delay in final treatment (1.5 years) probably caused a more extensive surgery . If was treated a year earlier, the mandibulectomy may have been spared. The parotidectomy would have been done ...
- Expert Summary: Even though, I don't do surgery on head and neck cancer cases, I have been trained on diagnosis and have seen parotid tumors during training, practice and head and neck tumor conferences
- Similar Summary: once a year for parotid tumors but several oral cancers/year
28yo Molar Extraction Complicated by Right IAN Injury (Case #521)
- Medical Probability: 9 / 10
- Medical Error Summary: Paresthesia is only about 2-3% by specialists (oral surgeons). It would be higher for general dentists doing this procedure. What indications were present to even do all 4 wisdom teeth? Tooth #32 whe...
- Causation Probability: 9 / 10
- Causation Summary: The surgery definitely caused the injury. Whether the dentist was qualified enough and need for surgery needs to be determined, The preop xray shows a very close nerve proximity. A CBCT taken preop ...
- Expert Summary: 40 years of oral surgery experience Reviewed similar cases including one of my own
- Similar Summary: I see about 5 paresthesia cases /year between cases referred to me and my own patients.
